PRAISE

The competition for the most depraved example of the pred-
atory state capitalism of the Reagan-Thatcher neoliberal era is
fierce. In this chilling study, based on careful and courageous
reporting, and illuminated with perceptive analysis, Antony
Loewenstein presents many competitors for the prize, while
also helping us understand all too well the saying that man
is a wolf to man.

— NOAM CHOMSKY, Institute Professor
at MIT and Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, political
activist and author

Profits of Doom nails the mad idea that the drive for profits will
create global wellbeing.Antony Loewenstein delivers a spine-
chilling account of the post 9/11 world taken over by vulture
capitalism and its political cronies. And this is what we are
voting for.

— BOB BROWN, former leader of the Australian
Greens and director of Sea Shepherd

Antony Loewenstein’s Profits of Doom is a powerful indict-
ment of the corporations and governments across the globe
whose unquenchable thirst for resources and power threaten
the stability—perhaps even the very existence—of the planet.
Loewenstein is no armchair academic or cubicle journalist.
The stories in this book are the product of years embedded,
in military and economic warzones, with the disempowered
of the world, the people from Pakistan to Papua New Guinea
and beyond who have the audacity and bravery to fight back
against all odds. Loewenstein’s keen sense of justice is evident
on every page of this book as he gives voice to the voiceless
and confronts the powerful. Profits of Doom is a devastat-
ing, incisive follow-up to Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine.

A great exercise in joining the dots, on essential terrain that
too often is ignored.At a time when rapacious private interests
campaign to destroy government— so they can cash in on
its absence—Loewenstein reports from the frontline in an
insidious war.

In Australia, so often bereft of voices of dissent and courage,
Antony Loewenstein’s tenacious work stands out. Profits of
Doom is a journey into a world of mutated economics and
corrupt politics that we ignore at our peril.